Other Roots Consumption by Country

FAO Food Balances data show that Nigeria had the largest listed food supply of other roots in 2023, at 3,368 thousand tonnes, followed by China at 1,559 thousand tonnes and Ethiopia at 1,176 thousand tonnes. Namibia had the highest per-capita food supply at 97.57 kilograms per person per year. The dataset covers 122 reporters and spans 2019 through 2023, although some reporters have missing values in individual years.

Nigeria had the highest listed other roots food supply in 2023 at 3,368 thousand tonnes, while Namibia had the highest per-capita food supply at 97.57 kilograms per person per year. Nigeria's listed food supply was 2.16 times China's (3,368 thousand tonnes against 1,559).

Other Roots Food Supply at a Glance

• Nigeria had the largest listed other roots food supply in 2023 at 3,368 thousand tonnes.
• China ranked second at 1,559 thousand tonnes, followed by Ethiopia at 1,176 thousand tonnes.
• Namibia had the highest per-capita food supply at 97.57 kilograms per person per year.
• The 2023 listed total was 13,635 thousand tonnes across 121 reporters with reported values.
• Among 120 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, listed other roots food supply increased by 1,975 thousand tonnes, or 16.9 percent.
• The FAO Food element measures food available for human consumption and is not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Key Takeaways

In 2023, Nigeria had the largest listed supply of other roots at 3,368 thousand tonnes, followed by China at 1,559 thousand tonnes. Ethiopia ranked third with 1,176 thousand tonnes. On a per-capita basis, Namibia recorded the highest food supply at 97.57 kilograms per person per year, followed by Samoa at 89.16 kilograms.

Across the 121 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, listed other roots supply increased by 154 thousand tonnes, or 1.1 percent. Ethiopia contributed 213 thousand tonnes of that increase, more than the net gain, while Liberia recorded the largest decline at 71 thousand tonnes. These figures represent food available for human consumption in the FAO Food Balances and should not be interpreted as the amount of other roots actually eaten.

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#	Country	2023 (thousand tonnes)2023	2023 (kg per person per year)2023
1	Nigeria NG	3.37K	14.78
2	China CN	1.56K	1.1
3	Ethiopia ET	1.18K	9.13
4	Ghana GH	1.1K	32.51
5	Cameroon CM	910	32.07
6	DR Congo CD	772	7.3
7	Papua New Guinea PG	596	57.37
8	Pakistan PK	491	1.99
9	Thailand TH	346	4.82
10	Indonesia ID	305	1.08
11	Namibia NA	289	97.57
12	Peru PE	215	6.36
13	Rwanda RW	177	12.72
14	Mexico MX	149	1.15
15	Egypt EG	136	1.19
16	Nepal NP	133	4.49
17	Venezuela VE	128	4.51
18	Madagascar MG	124	3.99
19	Philippines PH	114	0.99
20	Ivory Coast CI	100	3.22
21	Botswana BW	97	39.09
22	Malaysia MY	89	2.53
23	Guinea GN	84	5.84
24	Gabon GA	72	28.8
25	Colombia CO	68	1.3
26	Fiji FJ	67	72.45
27	Guinea-Bissau GW	64	29.58
28	Eswatini SZ	62	50.18
29	Sri Lanka LK	62	2.69
30	United States US	62	0.18
31	Congo CG	57	9.25
32	Haiti HT	49	4.19
33	Taiwan TW	49	2.09
34	Dominican Republic DO	47	4.11
35	Solomon Islands SB	46	57.23
36	El Salvador SV	44	6.98
37	Cambodia KH	37	2.15
38	Bolivia BO	34	2.81
39	Laos LA	33	4.24
40	Bhutan BT	31	39.32
41	Liberia LR	27	4.87
42	Jamaica JM	26	9.03
43	Timor-Leste TL	20	14.09
44	Samoa WS	19	89.16
45	Ecuador EC	17	0.95
46	Kenya KE	17	0.3
47	Guyana GY	14	16.93
48	Comoros KM	13	14.76
49	Vanuatu VU	10	32.19
50	Mozambique MZ	9	0.27
51	Canada CA	7	0.18
52	Nicaragua NI	7	1.01
53	Sao Tome and Principe ST	7	28.81
54	Saudi Arabia SA	7	0.2
55	Serbia RS	7	1.04
56	Trinidad and Tobago TT	7	4.64
57	Vietnam VN	7	0.07
58	Costa Rica CR	6	1.14
59	Iraq IQ	5	0.14
60	Israel IL	5	0.49
61	New Zealand NZ	5	0.94
62	Panama PA	5	1.22
63	India IN	4	0
64	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	4	39.09
65	Tonga TO	4	37.23
66	Australia AU	3	0.12
67	France FR	3	0.04
68	Hong Kong HK	3	0.37
69	Macau MO	3	3.86
70	Sierra Leone SL	3	0.3
71	Kiribati KI	2	12.15
72	Mauritius MU	2	1.94
73	Tanzania TZ	2	0.03
74	Uganda UG	2	0.05
75	Bahrain BH	1	0.4
76	Honduras HN	1	0.1
77	Italy IT	1	0.01
78	Lebanon LB	1	0.15
79	Netherlands NL	1	0.06
80	Oman OM	1	0.26
81	Saint Lucia LC	1	8.11
82	South Korea KR	1	0.02
83	Suriname SR	1	1.61
84	United Arab Emirates AE	1	0.09
85	United Kingdom GB	1	0.02
86	Zimbabwe ZW	1	0.07
87	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0	1.24
88	Austria AT	0	0.03
89	Bahamas BS	0	0.01
90	Bangladesh BD	0	0
91	Barbados BB	0	0.44
92	Belgium BE	0	0.01
93	Belize BZ	0	0.37
94	Burkina Faso BF	0	0.01
95	Cape Verde CV	0	0
96	Chile CL	0	0
97	Cyprus CY	0	0.02
98	Djibouti DJ	0	0
99	Estonia EE	0	0
100	French Polynesia PF	0	0.59
101	Gambia GM	0	0.03
102	Grenada GD	0	2.95
103	Iceland IS	0	0.03
104	Jordan JO	0	0.01
105	Kuwait KW	0	0.03
106	Latvia LV	0	0
107	Lesotho LS	0	0
108	Libya LY	0	0.03
109	Maldives MV	0	0.21
110	Marshall Islands MH	0	0.09
111	Montenegro ME	0	0.04
112	Nauru NR	0	0.38
113	New Caledonia NC	0	0.83
114	Niger NE	0	0
115	Qatar QA	0	0.16
116	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0	8.22
117	Senegal SN	0	0
118	Seychelles SC	0	0.25
119	Slovenia SI	0	0.05
120	Switzerland CH	0	0.03
121	Tuvalu TV	0	15.21

Other Roots Consumption by Country in 2023

Nigeria had the largest listed food supply of other roots in the 2023 data with 3,368 thousand tonnes (24.7 percent of the listed total), followed by China with 1,559 thousand tonnes (11.4 percent) and Ethiopia with 1,176 thousand tonnes (8.6 percent). Ghana ranked fourth with 1,099 thousand tonnes and Cameroon fifth with 910 thousand tonnes.

The top three reporters hold 44.8 percent of the listed 2023 total, the top five 59.5 percent and the top ten 77.9 percent of the 13,635-thousand-tonne total. Nigeria alone accounts for nearly a quarter of the listed total.

Ethiopia Adds 213 Thousand Tonnes as Other Roots Food Supply Grows 1.1 Percent Between 2022 and 2023

Among the 121 reporters with data in both 2022 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 13,481 thousand tonnes to 13,635 thousand tonnes, a gain of 154 thousand tonnes (1.1 percent). The annual listed totals across all reporters were 13,481 thousand tonnes in 2022 and 13,635 thousand tonnes in 2023, with no reporter entering or leaving the comparison. Ethiopia added 213 thousand tonnes (up 22.1 percent), accounting for 138.3 percent of the net increase, followed by Pakistan with 68 thousand tonnes (up 16.1 percent) and Nigeria with 54 thousand tonnes (up 1.6 percent), while Liberia fell 71 thousand tonnes (down 72.4 percent), Cameroon fell 27 thousand tonnes (down 2.9 percent), Saudi Arabia fell 22 thousand tonnes (down 75.9 percent), China fell 19 thousand tonnes (down 1.2 percent) and Nicaragua fell 17 thousand tonnes (down 70.8 percent).

Nigeria Adds 1,955 Thousand Tonnes as Other Roots Food Supply Grows 16.9 Percent Since 2019

For the 120 reporters with data in both 2019 and 2023, the listed food supply increased from 11,653 thousand tonnes to 13,628 thousand tonnes, a gain of 1,975 thousand tonnes (16.9 percent). The 2019 total includes 121 reporters with reported values, while the 2023 total includes 121; Cuba, with 98 thousand tonnes in 2019, had no reported 2023 value, while Vietnam entered with 7 thousand tonnes. Nigeria added 1,955 thousand tonnes (up 138.4 percent), accounting for 99.0 percent of the increase, followed by Ethiopia with 272 thousand tonnes (up 30.1 percent), Pakistan with 161 thousand tonnes (up 48.8 percent) and Ghana with 70 thousand tonnes (up 6.8 percent), while DR Congo fell 296 thousand tonnes (down 27.7 percent), Cameroon fell 130 thousand tonnes (down 12.5 percent), Indonesia fell 96 thousand tonnes (down 23.9 percent) and the United States fell 62 thousand tonnes (down 50.0 percent).

Nigeria accounts for most of the five-year increase: its 1,955-thousand-tonne gain is 99.0 percent of the common-reporter increase, while Ethiopia, Pakistan and Ghana add 503 thousand tonnes between them, DR Congo, Cameroon, Indonesia and the United States subtract 584 thousand tonnes, and smaller movements elsewhere add a net 101 thousand tonnes. The per-capita ranking looks nothing like the totals ranking: Namibia records 97.57 kilograms per year from 289 thousand tonnes and Samoa 89.16 from 19 thousand tonnes, while Nigeria, which leads the total, records 14.78 kilograms.

What Does Other Roots Consumption Measure?

For FAO Food Balances, the Roots, Other figure used here is the amount recorded under the Food element. It represents food available for human consumption during the reference year, rather than a direct estimate of how much other roots people actually ate. The item is a residual category covering roots and tubers not recorded under their own items, so it excludes potatoes, sweet potatoes and cassava.

The per-capita figure expresses the same food supply on a population basis, in kilograms per person per year. A country's total quantity and per-capita value therefore answer different questions: total quantity shows the size of the listed food supply, while the per-capita measure adjusts it for population.

Other Roots Consumption by Country

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#	Country	2019 (1000 t)	2019 (kg/cap/yr)	2020 (1000 t)	2020 (kg/cap/yr)	2021 (1000 t)	2021 (kg/cap/yr)	2022 (1000 t)	2022 (kg/cap/yr)	2023 (1000 t)	2023 (kg/cap/yr)
1	Nigeria	1.41K	6.74	1.5K	7.01	2.5K	11.44	3.31K	14.85	3.37K	14.78
2	China	1.62K	1.14	1.61K	1.13	1.59K	1.12	1.58K	1.11	1.56K	1.1
3	Ethiopia	904	7.81	1.45K	12.18	888	7.27	963	7.68	1.18K	9.13
4	Ghana	1.03K	32.92	817	25.62	930	28.6	1.09K	32.8	1.1K	32.51
5	Cameroon	1.04K	40.78	760	28.98	844	31.36	937	33.91	910	32.07
6	DR Congo	1.07K	11.49	796	8.29	805	8.12	773	7.55	772	7.3
7	Papua New Guinea	596	62.05	642	65.45	609	60.85	594	58.24	596	57.37
8	Pakistan	330	1.43	180	0.76	354	1.48	423	1.73	491	1.99
9	Thailand	333	4.65	343	4.78	347	4.83	347	4.84	346	4.82
10	Indonesia	401	1.47	284	1.03	320	1.16	314	1.13	305	1.08
11	Namibia	274	103.5	276	101.04	280	99.69	288	99.51	289	97.57
12	Peru	209	6.45	211	6.42	209	6.3	209	6.25	215	6.36
13	Rwanda	159	12.44	174	13.31	186	13.91	188	13.75	177	12.72
14	Mexico	155	1.23	207	1.64	213	1.67	139	1.08	149	1.15
15	Egypt	95	0.88	103	0.94	119	1.08	142	1.26	136	1.19
16	Nepal	155	5.46	143	4.93	142	4.81	137	4.61	133	4.49
17	Venezuela	124	4.28	130	4.58	128	4.52	129	4.58	128	4.51
18	Madagascar	108	3.83	121	4.19	119	4	122	3.99	124	3.99
19	Philippines	106	0.96	109	0.97	112	0.99	115	1.01	114	0.99
20	Ivory Coast	71	2.5	90	3.1	95	3.21	99	3.24	100	3.22
21	Botswana	92	39.49	97	41.01	97	40.2	96	39.51	97	39.09
22	Malaysia	47	1.42	66	1.94	112	3.28	94	2.7	89	2.53
23	Guinea	92	7.1	75	5.57	78	5.69	88	6.28	84	5.84
24	Gabon	51	22.35	56	24.07	79	33.12	79	32.63	72	28.8
25	Colombia	56	1.12	89	1.76	67	1.31	58	1.13	68	1.3
26	Fiji	52	56.86	54	59.43	55	60.44	66	71.29	67	72.45
27	Guinea-Bissau	55	27.84	61	30.15	64	31.19	64	30.16	64	29.58
28	Eswatini	60	50.43	58	48.76	61	50.67	63	52.09	62	50.18
29	Sri Lanka	60	2.69	60	2.65	61	2.67	57	2.49	62	2.69
30	United States	124	0.37	159	0.47	108	0.32	77	0.23	62	0.18
31	Congo	51	9.05	54	9.43	55	9.35	56	9.25	57	9.25
32	Haiti	48	4.32	48	4.31	49	4.29	49	4.22	49	4.19
33	Taiwan	51	2.16	46	1.94	46	1.96	49	2.09	49	2.09
34	Dominican Republic	28	2.6	31	2.8	31	2.81	44	3.88	47	4.11
35	Solomon Islands	45	61.39	45	60.56	47	61.66	46	58.67	46	57.23
36	El Salvador	40	6.43	40	6.35	40	6.4	44	7	44	6.98
37	Cambodia	37	2.22	36	2.12	38	2.25	37	2.15	37	2.15
38	Bolivia	36	3.11	37	3.15	35	2.93	35	2.87	34	2.81
39	Laos	50	6.91	60	8.17	65	8.68	33	4.41	33	4.24
40	Bhutan	29	38.24	29	37.85	30	38.55	31	39.32	31	39.32
41	Liberia	26	5.06	25	4.9	24	4.6	98	18.17	27	4.87
42	Jamaica	24	8.61	22	7.77	23	8.25	24	8.5	26	9.03
43	Timor-Leste	22	17.23	22	16.53	21	15.91	23	16.66	20	14.09
44	Samoa	12	59.33	16	77.01	19	88.2	19	86.93	19	89.16
45	Ecuador	15	0.87	14	0.77	16	0.9	15	0.85	17	0.95
46	Kenya	19	0.36	17	0.32	17	0.31	17	0.31	17	0.3
47	Guyana	13	16.17	15	19.06	13	15.58	14	16.81	14	16.93
48	Comoros	10	13.14	12	14.96	13	15.28	13	15.01	13	14.76
49	Vanuatu	53	181.52	52	174	50	161.86	14	44.63	10	32.19
50	Mozambique	9	0.29	9	0.29	9	0.29	9	0.28	9	0.27
51	Canada	7	0.18	8	0.22	8	0.21	7	0.19	7	0.18
52	Nicaragua	12	1.89	31	4.73	25	3.83	24	3.56	7	1.01
53	Sao Tome and Principe	6	26.15	6	25.74	6	26.57	6	27.13	7	28.81
54	Saudi Arabia	25	0.83	17	0.53	4	0.12	29	0.9	7	0.2
55	Serbia	6	0.86	6	0.93	6	0.94	7	1.04	7	1.04
56	Trinidad and Tobago	9	6.16	9	5.98	6	3.93	6	4.13	7	4.64
57	Vietnam	-	-	0	0	0	0	5	0.05	7	0.07
58	Costa Rica	14	2.77	15	2.91	10	1.9	7	1.34	6	1.14
59	Iraq	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.14	5	0.14
60	Israel	5	0.6	5	0.6	6	0.66	5	0.54	5	0.49
61	New Zealand	5	1.05	5	1.06	6	1.09	5	1.04	5	0.94
62	Panama	3	0.62	6	1.42	7	1.65	6	1.32	5	1.22
63	India	4	0	2	0	3	0	4	0	4	0
64	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3	29.73	3	30.62	3	32.63	3	31.64	4	39.09
65	Tonga	3	31.99	4	35.31	3	32.52	4	40.87	4	37.23
66	Australia	3	0.14	3	0.13	3	0.13	3	0.13	3	0.12
67	France	3	0.04	3	0.04	3	0.05	2	0.03	3	0.04
68	Hong Kong	2	0.3	2	0.27	3	0.37	3	0.34	3	0.37
69	Macau	3	4.93	2	3.63	3	4.04	3	3.9	3	3.86
70	Sierra Leone	3	0.34	3	0.34	3	0.31	3	0.3	3	0.3
71	Kiribati	2	13.12	2	13.06	2	14.03	2	12.66	2	12.15
72	Mauritius	1	0.65	1	0.51	2	1.41	2	1.7	2	1.94
73	Tanzania	2	0.03	2	0.03	2	0.03	2	0.03	2	0.03
74	Uganda	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	11	0.24	2	0.05
75	Bahrain	1	0.84	1	0.69	1	0.45	1	0.76	1	0.4
76	Honduras	5	0.54	6	0.57	6	0.62	1	0.13	1	0.1
77	Italy	0	0.01	0	0.01	1	0.01	0	0.01	1	0.01
78	Lebanon	1	0.25	1	0.18	1	0.16	1	0.16	1	0.15
79	Netherlands	1	0.04	1	0.08	1	0.07	1	0.04	1	0.06
80	Oman	2	0.39	2	0.34	2	0.4	1	0.17	1	0.26
81	Saint Lucia	1	4.8	1	6.03	1	6.57	1	7.68	1	8.11
82	South Korea	3	0.06	3	0.07	3	0.05	3	0.05	1	0.02
83	Suriname	0	0.81	1	2.16	1	1.5	1	1.34	1	1.61
84	United Arab Emirates	3	0.28	2	0.24	2	0.22	2	0.18	1	0.09
85	United Kingdom	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.01	1	0.02
86	Zimbabwe	1	0.07	1	0.07	1	0.07	1	0.07	1	0.07
87	Antigua and Barbuda	0	1.92	0	0.56	0	1.72	0	1.54	0	1.24
88	Austria	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03
89	Bahamas	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
90	Bangladesh	0	0	1	0	2	0.01	2	0.01	0	0
91	Barbados	0	0.66	0	0.75	0	0.51	0	0.62	0	0.44
92	Belgium	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01
93	Belize	0	0.4	0	0.45	0	0.43	0	0.43	0	0.37
94	Burkina Faso	2	0.1	5	0.24	6	0.27	0	0.01	0	0.01
95	Cape Verde	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
96	Chile	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0
97	Cyprus	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02
98	Djibouti	3	3.15	9	8.37	10	8.51	0	0	0	0
99	Estonia	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0
100	French Polynesia	4	15.98	4	15.91	4	16.04	0	1.29	0	0.59
101	Gambia	0	0	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0	0	0.03
102	Grenada	2	12.93	1	5.38	1	8.8	0	3.23	0	2.95
103	Iceland	0	0.02	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.03
104	Jordan	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.01
105	Kuwait	0	0.09	0	0.08	0	0.07	0	0.05	0	0.03
106	Latvia	0	0.01	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
107	Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	0	0
108	Libya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.03
109	Maldives	2	4.31	2	3.94	0	0.06	0	0.16	0	0.21
110	Marshall Islands	0	0.03	0	0.08	0	0.11	0	0.05	0	0.09
111	Montenegro	0	0	0	0.02	0	0.01	0	0.03	0	0.04
112	Nauru	0	0.39	0	0.73	0	0.46	0	1.32	0	0.38
113	New Caledonia	0	0.85	0	0.86	0	0.99	0	0.9	0	0.83
114	Niger	2	0.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
115	Qatar	1	0.23	1	0.45	1	0.4	1	0.35	0	0.16
116	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	9.41	0	8.73	0	9.07	0	8.26	0	8.22
117	Senegal	0	0	0	0.01	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
118	Seychelles	0	0.39	0	0.28	0	0.57	0	0.37	0	0.25
119	Slovenia	0	0.02	0	0.07	0	0.02	0	0.14	0	0.05
120	Switzerland	0	0.03	0	0.04	0	0.03	0	0.03	0	0.03
121	Tuvalu	0	12.95	0	14.28	0	13.55	0	15.07	0	15.21
122	Cuba	98	8.74	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Quick Answer

In 2023, Nigeria had the largest listed food supply of other roots at 3,368 thousand tonnes, followed by China at 1,559 thousand tonnes and Ethiopia at 1,176 thousand tonnes. Namibia had the highest per-capita food supply at 97.57 kilograms per person per year. The dataset contains 122 reporters in the five-year series, with 121 reporting a value for 2023. The figures represent food available for human consumption in FAO Food Balances and are not a direct measure of the amount actually eaten.

Methodology

Percentage changes use the corresponding value in the earlier year as the base. Yearly totals use FAO Food Balances food quantity (Element 5142, thousand tonnes), while the per-capita figures use food supply quantity (Element 645, kg/capita/year) for Roots, Other from 2019 through 2023. The Food element represents the quantity available for human consumption during the reference period. It is not a direct measure of the quantity actually eaten, as additional losses or waste may occur after food reaches the consumer.

The reporter universe contains 122 reporters. The tables list reporters only; aggregate rows such as World, regions and China (aggregate) are excluded, while China figures refer to the China reporter. For year-to-year comparisons, only reporters with values in both endpoint years are included in the arithmetic. A zero indicates a displayed value of zero, while an empty cell indicates that no value is available for that reporter and year.

Quantities of 1,000 thousand tonnes and above are shown as whole numbers; smaller quantities retain up to two decimals. FAO Food Balances primarily use official national statistics, with some data also estimated or imputed where applicable. The FAO dataset reports the Food element in thousand tonnes and food supply quantity in kilograms per capita per year. The 2023 listed total of 13,635 thousand tonnes is the sum of the 121 reporters with a reported 2023 value; it excludes aggregate rows and reporters without a 2023 value.